Features

Features

Uncovering the secret state

The Cable interviews veteran investigative journalist Duncan Campbell about blowing open state surveillance – and being targeted by security services.

Lorna Stephenson
Lorna Stephenson

Features

Fate of controversial Avonmouth industrial plant to be decided

Council ‘error’ leaves waste processing plant’s future down to Planning Inquiry.

Lorna Stephenson
Lorna Stephenson

City

Determination and struggle to shake “hangover from the past” in Southmead

Sensationalist coverage of “riot” in area shows how media failed to grasp the real challenges faced by the community.

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

Ideas and Action

How this Barcelona group is building community power

An interview with the vice-president of the Federation of Neighbourhood Associations of Barcelona

Jenny Stringer

Features

Putting an end to the drug war and “the reign of terror”

Undercover cop-turned-drug reform activist Neil Woods talks about “the most important social justice issue of our time”.

Alec Saelens
Alec Saelens

People's History

One hundred years on, Bristol remembers those who refused to kill

Descendants of World War 1 conscientious objectors reclaim their history as a source of pride

Alec Saelens
Alec Saelens

Features

David Olusoga: Not the “angry black guy on television”

The Bristol-based celebrity historian talks about why he challenges the white-washing of British history… and the “pretty weird” relationship the city has with Edward Colston.

Koel Mukherjee
Koel Mukherjee

Features

One25: Helping women off the streets

The charity's chief executive tells the Cable about supporting sex workers with love, and trying to help women off the streets.

Holly Clemens

Features

Bijan Ebrahimi’s nephew: “We all let my uncle down, we must all fight a racist system”

Davood Khayatain talks about institutional racism, media prejudice, and how Bijan's death has influenced his activism.

Koel Mukherjee
Koel Mukherjee

Features

Driven underground: Bristol’s continuing Spice problem

A year after the blanket ban of new psychoactive substances, evidence shows limits and effect on most vulnerable people.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

City

The rise of right-wing Bristol millionaire Arron Banks

How did he get from a trading estate in Patchway to Trump’s golden elevator?

Adam Cantwell-Corn
Pip Taylor and Adam Cantwell-Corn

Bristol and Beyond

Chronic fatigue syndrome, Bristol University, and controversial science

Certain treatments of chronic fatigue syndrome, or ME, have pitted patients against researchers, and scientists against scientists – amid furious clashes on the validity of landmark studies into the condition.

Lorna Stephenson
Lorna Stephenson
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